Qatar Airways announced Tuesday it has placed an order worth
more than $2 billion for six Boeing planes, which it said reflected
the airline's continued expansion in the United States. A statement
on the Gulf carrier's website said it had placed an order for two
Boeing 747-8 Freighters and four 777-300ERs. "The order, a sign of
the airline's continued expansion and contribution to the US
economy, adds to the airline's current fleet of nearly 100 Boeing
widebody airplanes and its more than 100 additional Boeing aircraft
on order," read the Qatar Airways statement.

The 4-year-old British royal, much like a lot of children just
starting their educations, reportedly didn't want to go to school
on Tuesday morning, the Daily Mirror's Royal Correspondent,
Victoria Murphy, revealed.

Equifax Chairman and CEO Richard Smith has retired, following a
massive data breach at his company that exposed the personal
information of millions of people. The credit reporting agency
revealed earlier this month that hackers had accessed the
information of some 143m Americans – including some who had no idea
the company was collecting their data. The exposed information
included social security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and even
credit card numbers.

A British woman believed to have died after being mauled by
feral dogs in Greece may have been attacked by rabid wolves, a
coroner has said. The woman, named locally as Celia Hollingworth,
of Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, was reported missing on Thursday.
The 62-year-old disappeared while walking back to her accommodation
in Maroneia, in the northern part of the country, following a visit
to the nearby archaeological site of Mesimvria. Coroner
Nikolaos Kifinidis told The Times that the condition of remains
found on Saturday suggested she was not attacked by stray dogs. "It
seems like she may have been attacked by other wild animals, like
rabid wolves and jackals," he said. According to animal welfare
campaigners, there are an estimated one million stray dogs in
Greece, however wolves are common to the wooded region. Reports
suggest that Ms Hollingworth tried to contact her relatives in
London after being attacked, but lost signal on her phone. Celia
Hollingworth had been visiting the nearby archaeological site of
Mesimvria Credit: Hercules Milas/Alamy Several campaign
groups in the UK paid tribute to the retiree, who was described as
"dedicated" and "always optimistic". Ms Hollingworth worked as an
administrator at the University of Bristol and latterly dedicated
her time to raising money for causes including Syrian refugees. A
Wiltshire Police spokesman said: "We are working closely with
officers in Greece regarding the formal identification of the
deceased. "We are also working with colleagues from the Foreign
Office and supporting her next of kin at this difficult time." A
Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are in contact with Greek police
in relation to a British woman missing in northern Greece since
Thursday. "We are also providing consular assistance to her
family." The archaeological site of Mesimvria is is northern
Greece

The widow of a former NFL player who died while serving in the
U.S. Army issued a powerful response to President Donald Trump
using her husband’s name to criticize athletes who protest the
national anthem.

An officer in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's elite
military security force was found shot dead on Tuesday inside the
sprawling presidential compound, an official said. Major Harin
Gonzaga, 37, was found by his wife with a gunshot wound to the
heart inside his room in the Malacanang compound in Manila, said
Brigadier General Lope Dagoy, head of the Presidential Security
Group. The incident took place far from Duterte's residence inside
the compound, Dagoy said, adding that even other members of the
security force were unaware of the shooting until Gonzaga's wife
found the body.

Hillary Clinton slammed the administration of President Donald
Trump for its “rank hypocrisy” following revelations that the
president’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner had used a
private email account to conduct White House business.

Chelsea Manning, a former American soldier jailed for
leaking troves of classified information, said on Monday that she
was banned from entering Canada due to criminal convictions in the
United States. Manning had tried to cross at the official
border office at Lacolle, Quebec, on Friday. On Monday, she
posted a letter from Canadian immigration officials to her Twitter
account that said she was not admitted because she was convicted of
offences deemed equivalent to treason in Canada. "So, I guess
Canada has permanently banned me? Denied entry b/c of convictions
similar to "treason" offence," she wrote. so, i guess canada
has permanently banned me ? ✋�������� @CitImmCanada denied entry
b/c of convictions similar to "treason" offense ������
pic.twitter.com/xp0JOEEOGd— Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea)
September 25, 2017 The document said that Manning had
committed a crime outside the country that "would equate to an
indictable offence, namely treason" in Canada and which carries a
maximum sentence of 14 years imprisonment. Committing a crime
elsewhere that would carry a maximum sentence of at least 10 years
in Canada is grounds for a person to be denied entry, the document
said. Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, declined to
comment "on any specific case" at a news conference, and said he
looked "forward to seeing more details about this situation."
Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale suggested on Monday
he would think hard before overruling a border officer’s decision.
“No such request has been made to me with respect to that matter,”
Mr Goodale said, according to the National Post. Profile | Chelsea
Manning “And, when a Canada Border Services officer has exercised
appropriately within their jurisdiction the judgment that they are
called upon to make, I don’t interfere in that process in any kind
of a light or cavalier manner.” Manning was sentenced to 35
years in prison in 2013 for leaking more than 700,000 classified
documents to WikiLeaks three years earlier, when she was known as
Bradley. She served seven years, and twice tried to take her own
life last year alone, before then-president Barack Obama commuted
her sentence just days before he left office in January.
Manning was released from Fort Leavenworth's all-male prison
in May. During her incarceration, Manning battled for -
and won - the right to start hormone treatment. She now has cropped
blonde hair and a decidedly feminine look.

WASHINGTON ― European diplomats warned the Trump administration
on Monday that Europe is prepared to block U.S. efforts to reimpose
international sanctions against Iran as long as Tehran continues to
comply with its obligations under the nuclear deal.

The parents of a gunman who shot and killed a Pennsylvania
trooper engaged in "psychological manipulation" of their son and
should be held responsible for the deadly ambush at a state police
barracks, according to a lawsuit filed by the trooper's widow.

Comedian Hasan Minhaj took aim at President Donald Trump at GQ
India’s Men of the Year Awards, proving once again that he can
throw some serious shade while looking classy AF. Minhaj was
in Mumbai on Friday to accept the publication’s International
Man of the Year award.

The typically hushed corridors of the Russell Senate Building
echoed with noise Monday as protesters, upset by the Senate
Republicans’ health care bill, descended on lawmakers’ offices to
let their displeasure be known ― part of several such
demonstrations around the U.S. Capitol. An initial crowd estimated
at around 100 protesters split into smaller groups once inside the
building, with each subgroup seeking out the offices of specific
senators, some of whom are positioned to cast critical swing votes
on the legislation. Capitol Police said in a statement they
responded to 13 locations in Senate and House office buildings and
as of late Monday afternoon had made 80 arrests.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday signed into law
a controversial language bill which has sparked a standoff with
Romania and other east European states. The law states that
starting in September 2020, students will be taught exclusively in
Ukrainian from the fifth grade onwards, though they can still learn
their native languages as a separate subject. The legislation has
also raised hackles in Ukraine's sizable Hungarian and Polish
minorities.

On a more human level, it would be interesting to go back in
time to World Wars I and II, where a constant refrain of the
sailors and airmen who hunted subs was the sheer tedium of the
search. Hour after hour after hour of scanning the oceans, in the
hope that a needle in the haystack would reveal itself as a sonar
contact or a tiny periscope peeking above the surface. If nothing
else, farming out sub-hunting to the robots will make chasing subs
a bit less dull.

Rachel Maddow reports on Kurdish people voting on a referendum
to become independent from Iraq, a situation the U.S. has fought to
prevent but Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort
has been paid to promote.

A few days after Hurricane Irma slammed into south Florida ―
while there were still tight travel restrictions and curfews in
place ― Bette Zirkelbach stocked an ambulance with supplies and
raced south.

By Toni Clarke (Reuters) - (The Sept. 22 story has been
corrected to remove the reference to Humira being a Jak-inhibitor
in the final paragraph. Humira is a TNF-inhibitor.) The U.S. Food
and Drug Administration has declined to approve Johnson &
Johnson's rheumatoid arthritis drug sirukumab, saying additional
clinical data is needed to further evaluate its safety, the company
said on Friday. The FDA's decision is in keeping with an advisory
panel's recommendation in August that the FDA reject the drug.

This is the mesmerizing image of a colorful Milky Way
shining down on Mount Fuji. Steve Lance Lee, 37, captured the sky
above the iconic mountain whilst on his honeymoon in Lake
Kawaguchiko, Japan. Mount Fuji is illuminated underneath the galaxy
of stars, creating an impressive landscape. (Caters News)

The U.S. Navy is seriously considering reactivating as many as
seven recently-decommissioned Oliver Hazard Perry-class
guided-missile frigates in order to quickly boost the size of the
U.S. Navy’s surface fleet. Rather than sending them into harm’s way
in the Middle East or into the crowded, dangerous waters of the
Western Pacific, the Navy would assign the 4,100-ton Perrys to the
Caribbean in “a limited drug-interdiction mode,” Spencer said.

WASHINGTON ― Members of Congress will soon need to decide
whether they want to grant some sort of relief to the hundreds of
thousands of young undocumented immigrants President Donald Trump
put at risk of deportation and losing their jobs.

North Korean state media has released a new video depicting the
destruction of US aircraft and warships and warning that any attack
on the North will see US forces "head to the grave". The 99-second
clip was released on Sunday by the DPRK Today news site, just hours
after two US Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers flew off the coast of
North Korea in a show of force. Accompanied by US fighters based in
Okinawa, the bombers flew further north of the Demilitarised Zone
that divides the Korean Peninsula than any US military aircraft in
the 21st century, according to the Pentagon. A screenshot of the
North Korean video showing the US carrier being blown up The
North Korean propaganda video begins with pictures of President
Donald Trump, describing him as a "mad man". It goes on to show a
series of Pukguksong missiles being fired from mobile launch
vehicles before an F-35 Raptor fighter and a nuclear-capable Lancer
bomber are destroyed by computer-generated explosions. The footage
goes on to show a missile being fired from a submerged submarine
before striking the USS Carl Vinson. The 103,000-tonne aircraft
carrier is the flagship of Carrier Strike Croup 1 and conducted
drills with another nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS
Ronald Reagan, off North Korea in June. North Korean missile ranges
It has also carried out exercises, utilising its 90 fixed wing
aircraft and helicopters, with Korean navy units. The footage shows
USS Carl Vinson engulfed in flames after the missile strike, with
subtitles stating, "Should F-35, B-1B or the Carl Vinson lead the
US attack, they will head to the grave in that order". Trump: We'll
deal with 'Little Rocket Man' Kim Jong-u 01:34

An autopsy report has revealed how a model was scalped and
drained of blood, in a murder branded unprecedented “outside of
wartime”. Comic book writer Blake Leibel, 35, is charged with the
murder of the mother of his child, Ukrainian-born Iana Kasian, 30.
The murder took place in May last year and Mr Leibel, the heir to a
plastics and property fortune, could be given the death sentence if
found guilty, due to the severity of the crime.

By Tom Allard MARAWI CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - With a
grimace, Brigadier General Melquiades Ordiales of the Philippines
1st Marine Brigade recounted the painful gains made against
Islamist militants in Marawi City. "It took us one week from this
point to that point, to cross that street," he said, casting his
eyes to the other side of a two-lane road in the heart of the
southern Philippines city, lined by three-storey buildings
shattered by air strikes and the remaining walls riddled with
bullet holes. "It was really very, very tough." The grinding urban
warfare that has destroyed much of the grandly named Sultan Omar
Dianalan Boulevard shows just how much of a threat Islamic State is
to the Philippines and potentially other countries in the Southeast
Asian region.

Copperhead snakes bite more people in the U.S. than any other
snake species. Although their bites are typically not fatal to
humans but are serious and should be treated with medical attention
immediately.

Chancellor Angela Merkel clinched a fourth term in Germany's
election Sunday, but her victory was clouded by the entry into
parliament of the hard-right AfD in the best showing for a
nationalist force since World War II. Merkel, who after 12 years in
power held a double-digit lead for most of the campaign, scored
around 33 percent of the vote with her conservative Christian Union
(CDU/CSU) bloc, according to preliminary results. Its nearest
rivals, the Social Democrats and their candidate Martin Schulz,
came in a distant second, with a post-war record low of 21
percent.

By Maher Chmaytelli and Daren Butler ERBIL, Iraq/ISTANBUL
(Reuters) - Iraq's Kurds will go ahead with a referendum on
independence on Monday because their partnership with Baghdad has
failed, Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani
said on Sunday, shrugging off international opposition to the vote.
In response, the Iraqi government asked the autonomous Kurdish
region to hand over control of its international border posts, its
international airports and called on foreign countries to stop
importing Kurdish crude oil.